The current Maria Lanakila Church building is a replica of the structure first built on this site between 1856 and 1858. The church was built despite the opposition of many of the original missionary families and their followers who opposed the arrival of Roman Catholic priests in 1846.
This window commemorates the work and memory of Father Damien de Veuster (January 3, 1840 – April 15, 1889), born Jozef de Veuster and also known as Blessed Damien of Molokai.
Father Damien, in Dutch, Damiaan, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious order.
Father Damien is known for his ministering of people with what was then widely known as leprosy, now known as Hansen's Disease, who had been placed under a government-sanctioned medical quarantine, on the island of Moloka'i in the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Father Damien eventually contracted the disease himself and died on Moloka'i.
This window commemorates the work and memory of Father Damien de Veuster (January 3, 1840 – April 15, 1889), born Jozef de Veuster and also known as Blessed Damien of Molokai.
Father Damien, in Dutch, Damiaan, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious order.
Father Damien is known for his ministering of people with what was then widely known as leprosy, now known as Hansen's Disease, who had been placed under a government-sanctioned medical quarantine, on the island of Moloka'i in the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Father Damien eventually contracted the disease himself and died on Moloka'i.